Each year our faculty and society members join together to contribute toward training, supervision, mentoring and participating in community outreach projects within our community. During the academic year, our faculty contributes over a thousand hours training licensed mental health professionals.  We sponsored a task force in response to the Columbine School shootings.  We provided volunteer debriefing services to the community in the aftermath of the tragedy. Subsequently, several articles were published to summarize what we learned from that experience, to provide educational information to be used by other professionals.

["Healing After Columbine:  Reflections of Psychoanalytic Responders to Community Trauma" by Mary Ann Levy , Pamela Haglund, Linda Plaut, Robert Emde, Marguerite Stewart, Ronnie Shaw , Carol Ilvonen , Cathy Krown Buirski , Mel Singer, Rebecca Hea , and William Edwards (2004) in The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 52:3

"Denver Analysts respond to the Columbine tragedy" by Levy, M.A., Stewart, M., Buirski, C.K., et al (2003) in The American Psychoanalyst 37(1):1 ]

We provide educational programs and a monthly educational lecture series to offer educators, scholars and interested mental health professionals access to current developments and debate within the field of psychoanalysis.

HOW YOU CAN SUPPORT US:
Our programs are funded by tuition, membership dues and the generous contributions from donors in the community. By making a contribution to The Denver Psychoanalytic Society or the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis, you are contributing to the creation and advancement of educational opportunities and to the expansion of the awareness and understanding of psychoanalytic concepts.

You are allowing us to continue to offer low fee analyses to members of the community and to continue to train psychoanalysts who volunteer regularly in the community at schools, in disaster situations and who teach and mentor. You are supporting the educational programs open to all members of the community on psychoanalytic subjects making psychoanalytic understanding accessible, and you promote intellectual discussion that demonstrate the relevance of psychoanalytic understanding to every day life.

Your contribution is tax-deductible. Contributions of any amount are welcome.  Contributions can be made in the following ways:

       • The Fund for Psychoanalytic Education and Community Service (PEACS Fund)

       • The Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis Operating Fund

       • The Denver Psychoanalytic Society Fund

       • The Endowed Chair

We also invite you to attend our fundraisers which are listed on this website under Community Events. 

THE PEACS FUND

       The activities of the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Denver Psychoanalytic Society are partially supported by an Endowment Fund that was created out of bequests left to the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Denver Psychoanalytic Society.  The Endowment has grown over the years, but so have our expenses.  In order to meet the growing administrative costs of our programs for training in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, continuing education, community education, and pro bono services, the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Denver Psychoanalytic Society have launched a joint initiative to prevent the Endowment from being eroded and, even more importantly, to promote its growth.  Growing the Endowment will ensure that the Institute and Society will be able to perform their Missions far into the future.

       Donating to PEACS helps preserve a precious legacy.  We are able to provide top quality education in psychoanalysis and psychoanlayitc psychotherpay, serving adults, adolescents and children.  We provide free lectures and low-cost courses to our mental health colleagues and the community at large; consultations to individuals and institutions that may care for you or your loved ones; low-cost psychoanalysis through our Clinic; consultation to preschools, schools and community programs; disaster response training and services.

       We are recognized throughout the country as a pre-eminent center for education in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, serving Colorado for 40 years.  Soon psychoanalytic ideas will be accessible throughout the Rocky Mountain region.  Please help us ensure that excellent psychoanalytic education will be ours far into the future, informing all the services we provide for our communities.  Donations are tax deductible and can be made to the Denver Psychoanalytic Institute.

THE DENVER PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY FUND

       The Denver Psychoanalytic Society Fund was established to support all of the scientific, educational and community service activities of the Denver Psychoanalytic Society.  Wtih the establishment of this fund, we are able to accept tax deductible, charitable contributions as a

501 (c) 3 organization. 

THE ENDOWED CHAIR DRIVE

       As a pioneering investment in the future, the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis has begun a drive to fund an Endowed Chair for Psychoanalysis within the University of Colorado Denver Department of Psychaitry.  An Endowed Chair will allow us to recruit psychoanalytic scholars from around the country.

       With the help of a generous $200,000 matching grant from the University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, we are creating an endowment that will establish a permanent and stable academic presence for psychoanalysis in our community.  We are excited about the rich educational, cultural, and research possibilities for this faculty position.

       If you are interested in contributing to this particular fund, please contact the Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis at 303-724-2666 or write to us at:

              The Denver Institute for Psychoanalysis

              University of Colorado Denver, School of Medicine

              Mail Stop F478

              12469 East 17th Place, Room 113

              Aurora, CO 80045

Also, the DENVER PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY has affiliated with Cars for Charity: an easy process to dispose of your unwanted car or truck, receive a charitable tax deduction, and contribute to the Denver Psychoanalytic Society Fund the net proceeds of auction or salvage.  This will help keep our dues among the lowest in the country.  For instructions, call 303.853-GIVE or access their website at www.carsforcharity.net.